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Conservation groups rush to preserve camps across the U.S as some properties sell to the highest bidder

GOLDEN TROUT WILDERNESS, Calif. — We clambered loudly up the miserable incline, horses stumbling as their shoes slid on the ladder of rocks that took us up and away from the Kern River.

WASHINGTON — As the Biden administration doles out historic levels of wildfire mitigation funding, fights are breaking out on Capitol Hill about how to spend the money.

As the Biden administration doles out historic levels funding to curb wildfires, partisan fights are breaking out over how to spend the money.

Congress members Scott Peters (D-CA) and Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) introduced legislation on Monday that seeks to&nbs

Lawsuit alleges U.S. Forest Service ignored environmental dangers of eastern Kentucky logging project

DENVER — Lodgepole pines grow thick in mountain foothill forests west of Denver. Government-backed loggers cut down thousands. This left a hole across several acres of the popular Flying J Ranch Park that, close up, looks to visitors more like mowing than thinning.

A federal agency says an environmental review for a proposed copper mine in Arizona falls short on details about water and the potential impacts of climate change

Big Bear just had a close call.

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service is resuming its prescribed burning program with new rules that it says will minimize the risk of fires escaping control and damaging communities. The announcement comes after a 90-day pause prompted by a pair of escaped burns that merged into the largest wildfire…

Ronald Tyra knew it was time to flee when the 100-acre blaze across the street began igniting spot fires as it raced down the mountain. Tyra sped from his Klamath River, California, home with little more than the clothes on his back.